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Apple Rolls Out Express Transit Payments For London Commuters

PYMNTS

Express Transit also works for New York’s MTA, the TriMet in Portland, Suica cards in Japan and Chinese transit cards in Shanghai and Beijing. Apple express pay is available anywhere served by pay-as-you-go with contactless in London (including national rail stations in London),” a TfL spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge. “So

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Entrepreneurial Upscale Chefs Are Plating Recovery Plans

PYMNTS

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs), fast casual eateries and fast-food drive-thrus keep dominating headlines throughout the pandemic as a nation is understandably obsessed with staying fed on lockdown and after, when breathing the open air still feels oddly risky. There’s no way to translate that feeling to an open-air parking lot.

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U.K. Bank Joins Umpqua in Innovation Venture

American Banker

Umpqua Holdings in Portland, Ore., has found a bank partner to join in its bid to bring new banking technologies to market.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Honorable Mentions – while this was a quiet year for M&A, we tip our hat to Atlantic Union’s acquisition of American National Bank and Eastern Bank’s acquisition of Cambridge Bank. Award – goes to CNBC’s Jim Cramer , who lamented that banks should have been innovating offerings like those delivered by PayPal and Square.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

Arjan Schutte, Founder and Managing Partner, Core Innovation Capital, Los Angeles, CA. Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA. Amy Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, Point West Credit Union, Portland, OR. Lisa Servon, Professor, The New School, New York University, New York, NY. Ian Ayres, William K.

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Vacation Rental Home Startup Vacasa Isn’t Just An Airbnb Knockoff

PYMNTS

Since its founding, Vacasa has grown from a two-person company to employ more than 1,300 people at offices in Portland, Oregon, and Boise, Idaho, as well as numerous field personnel in the 14 U.S. states and four foreign countries where Vacasa manages about 4,000 vacation properties.

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What Are Smart Cities?

CB Insights

Thanks to innovative technology, smart cities are already a reality — and they continue to expand and become more refined. Innovation platform Amsterdam Smart City was created to develop solutions for a wide range of metropolitan issues. Get a data-driven look at the startups and industry players developing smart city technologies.

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